Seeds and fruit and how they travel, sentence 1

Some go by air: blow a dandelion clock and each seed floats off on a tiny parachute, and sycamore helicopters spin down slowly so the wind can carry them away.

Who acts: Some, seed, sycamore helicopters, wind · What happens: go, blow, float off, spin down, carry away · To what, where: dandelion clock, tiny parachute, helicopters

This is a sentence of the lesson «Seeds and fruit and how they travel» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Some, seed, sycamore helicopters, wind), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 go	nsubj
2	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 air	case
4	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 go	obl
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 blow	punct
6	blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 go	parataxis
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 clock	det
8	dandelion	dandelion	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 clock	compound
9	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blow	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 floats	cc
11	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	12 seed	det
12	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 floats	nsubj
13	floats	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 blow	conj
14	off	off	ADP	_	13 floats	compound:prt
15	on	on	ADP	_	18 parachute	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 parachute	det
17	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 parachute	amod
18	parachute	parachute	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 floats	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 spin	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 spin	cc
21	sycamore	sycamore	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 helicopters	compound
22	helicopters	helicopter	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 spin	nsubj
23	spin	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 go	advcl
24	down	down	ADV	_	23 spin	advmod
25	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	23 spin	advmod
26	so	so	SCONJ	_	30 carry	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 wind	det
28	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 carry	nsubj
29	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 carry	aux
30	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 spin	advcl
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 carry	obj
32	away	away	ADV	_	30 carry	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 go	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	present	Some			by air	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by air=Location
2	blow	infinitive		a dandelion clock			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent clock=Patient
3	float off	present	each seed		a tiny parachute		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on parachute=Trajectory
4	spin down	present	sycamore helicopters			down, slowly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	carry away	can	the wind	helicopters = helicopter		away property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:biology:059-seeds-and-fruit-and-how-they-travel.lesson:1.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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